2018

WEEK 1. INTRO, OVERVIEW. PREFACE THRU PAGE 39. K.H.

2018WEEK 2. HEALTH, SAFETY, PAGE 39-79,157-198 K.H. Dan Intor.

WEEK 3. :“WEALTH NOW”, PAGE 79-97. D.N.

WEEK 4. “ INEQUALITY NOW”, PAGE 97-121. D.N.

WEEK 5. HUMAN FLOURISHES, PAGES 121-157, 200-322. K.H., D.N.

WEEK 6. PROGRESS SUMMARY , PAGE 322-454. K.H., D.N.

MODERATORS: KIRT HOBLER AND DAN NAGEL

20182011

1. HUMAN NATURE:ANGELS? DEMONS?

2. WHY HAS VIOLENCE DECLINED?

3. WHAT WASENLIGHTENMENT IN THE 1700s?

4. WHAT ISENLIGHTENMENT TODAY?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR TOCAY

2011

# HOMOCIDES/100,000/YR.

2011

5000 ya THE STATE(THE LEVIATHAN)

15%

14%

<1%

24%

SIX TRENDS: 1. The Pacification Process, hunter-gatherer toagrarian 5000 yrs ago. (Millennial scale)2. The Civilizing Process. Feudal to 20 cent. Nation

states 10-50x reduction in homicide. (1/2 Millennial)3. Humanitarian Revolution, renaissance, age of

reason, enlightenment, (century scale)4. The Long Peace: since WWII5. The New Peace: since end of cold war, 19896. The Rights Revolution: since 1950-present.

FIVE DEMONS: 1. Predation. Rage/Fear/Seeking circuits. 2. Dominance. 3. Revenge. 4. Sadism. 5. Ideology. Justifies violence to obtain Utopia.

FOUR ANGELS: 1. Empathy. 2. Self Control. 3. The Moral Sense.4. Reason.

FIVE HISTORICAL FORCES: 1. The Leviathan. 2. Commerce.3. Feminization. 4. Cosmopolitanism.

5. The Escalation of Reason.

SCIENCE AND REASON 1600s

NEWTON

PHYSICAL REALM: MATHEMATICS

MENTAL REALM: PYCHOLOGY?

I AM THINKING, THEREFOR I AM.

FREEDOM

ENLIGHTENMENT 1700s

JUSTICE

REPRESENTATIVEGOVERNMENT

CHECKS/BALANCES

…BY THEPEOPLE

SEPARATION CHURCH/STATE

WEALTHMORALITY

SOCIALCONTRACT “DARE TO KNOW”

GOD IS NATURE

EMPIRICAL,SCIENTIFIC TRUTH

ENLIGHTENMENT PLUS THE SCIENCE OF…ENTROPY EVOVOLUTION INFORMATION DISSIPATED

(POTENTIAL) ENERGY

COUNTER ENLIGHTENMENTS: THE BIGGEST ENEMY 0F ENLIGHTENMENT IS ENTROPY